Halvorsen 1 & 2

This is the first towel on my current warp of ringspun 8/2 cotton (bought at M&R Yarns while on a road trip to Georgia). The weft is Borg’s 22/2 cottolin in light blue. I got a copy of Davison’s A Handweaver’s Pattern Book, I studied it looking for a nice twill that had some threading changes so it wasn’t all one pattern and with some nice treadling variations to keep me on my toes. I chose the Caroline Halvorsen patterns on pg. 44. Above is Halvorsen I.

This is the second towel on my warp. From Davison p.44 Caroline Halvorsen II. The first treadling was the easiest. 4,3,2,1. The second was a slightly longer sequence of 8 picks. 4,3,2,1,2,3,4,1.

The treadlings get progressively more complicated in 3 & 4 but should be fairly quick to memorize as well. I am halfway finished with towel #2 and should start on #3 later today.

Here is the draft for towels 1 and 2. There are plain weave sections at the beginning and end of each towel. I am using a floating selvedge since there are some point twill treadlings. I hope to finish all 4 before my study group meeting at the WGGC on Wednesday.